Last year nearly half the seventh graders in Metro Nashville Public Schools showed up for the first day of classes without the required vaccine documentation.

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School got off to a slow start last year for seventh-graders in Metro Nashville Public Schools when nearly half of them showed up for the first day of classes without the required vaccine documentation.

Students were sent home, and their parents had to rush to get shot records in order. Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, along with city school and health officials, will announce an initiative at 11:30 a.m. Monday to avoid a repeat this year. It involves giving away backpacks with school supplies to the first 1,000 incoming seventh-graders who show their updated immunization certificate.